Mark Scott to join POLITICO’s expanded technology team

Executive editor Matthew Kaminski sent the following note to staff on June 22:

To the team –

We’re thrilled to share some news this morning about our digital future: Mark Scott is POLITICO’s new Chief Technology Correspondent.

In a world where everything is so political and everything is so digital, we’re perfectly placed to be the publication of record on politics and technology.

Mark will help us broaden our journalistic horizons in this exciting space, working closely with the already strong tech teams in Brussels and the U.S. and across the newsroom to produce the sharpest, smartest journalism about, broadly speaking, the rules of the digital world – and the people fighting to set them.

There’s a feverish debate over privacy and cybersecurity, over the power of tech giants and their business practices, over the impact of technology on the way we live and work. And Europe is the main theater for these debates. A few days before we started here in 2015, Brussels relaunched its antitrust case against Google, reminding the world that the EU is the world’s most proactive tech regulator. Commission Competition Czarina Margarethe Vestager headlined our launch event (which, incidentally, was co-sponsored by Google) — showing from the beginning that we’re hosting and driving the most interesting conversations about digital politics and policy.

Our ambition in the coming months is to establish ourselves as a global tech destination. Let others cover the latest gadgets, boardroom dramas and Valley IPOs — many do that very well. POLITICO has a unique niche where technology intersects with politics. And with Mark on board, we’ll be in an even better position to dominate it.

As the European Technology Correspondent for the New York Times, his professional home the past six years, Mark filed memorable stories on fake news, Europe’s Google and privacy wars and the Apple-Ireland tax case. Based out of London, he worked the regulators in Brussels and got to know the tech scenes in Berlin and Stockholm well. He’ll continue to be based in London but will spend a lot of time in Brussels, other EU capitals and the US.

British by birth and raised in Brussels and the US, Mark earned degrees from St. Andrews and Imperial College — at the latter a masters of science in environmental technology. He started at the trade pub ICIS as an energy reporter, before moving to Businessweek magazine. He joined the Times in 2011 as a European financial reporter. Mark’s first day with us is July 17.

Please join us in welcoming him to POLITICO and wishing him and the rest of the tech team the best of luck in this new chapter.